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The Second Midlife Crisis

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Eileen Daspin Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated April 30, 2004 12:01 a.m. ET

The past year and a half of Vicki Ianucelli's life bears many of the earmarks of a midlife crisis. She bought a condo on the beach in Mexico and jetted off to Paris to celebrate a big birthday. She treated herself to a 9.5-karat emerald ring and got breast implants to boost her self-esteem.

But the New York psychologist isn't a floundering fortysomething or even a newly minted empty-nester. She's a 60-plus grandmother of two who logged her first midlife crisis more than a decade ago when she got a facelift to get over...